Bobwhites, humidity for lockdown?!

[BYCforlife]

It should be fine for a week or so, yes.

What are you using as a heat source though?
I worry that a lamp may not be a good combo with the plastic, do you have a heating pad?

I never thought about plastic with heat lamps! Were you thinking fumes from melted plastic, or something less dangerous?

 

[Kiki]

Alright perfect, I got a brinsea ecoglow ordered! Was going to use heat lamp in case it didnt get here on time, and no I dont have a heating pad where could I get one!?

They sell heating pads at my grocery store.
Pharmacies, Walmart type stores.

 

[Kiki]

I never thought about plastic with heat lamps! Were you thinking fumes from melted plastic, or something less dangerous?

Well I'm sure exactly what I think, but I just don't like the plastic containers for anything, although I did use one for a few days myself with a regular light bulb, not a heat lamp.

 

[Kiki]

The first day or so I had my quailies in a plastic container thing like this (eta this is the wrong photo...I added the one I originally wanted in the post below)

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• Kiki
• Aug 13, 2018

Then I moved them to a bird cage...I turned it on its side.

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• Kiki
• Aug 15, 2018

 

[Kiki]

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• Kiki
• Aug 13, 2018

 

[Kiki]

I don't know if you can tell but I prefer to feed a wet mash feed to my brand new babies and I serve it in jar lids.
Water too...I leave it in a shallow dish with some marble like things in it so they don't fall in and drown.

Also something that I hadn't thought about with my baby quail...the crumble feed is too big for new babies.
Some people put it in a blender to grind it into smaller pieces but I just stuck some in a zip lock bad and beat it with a mallet.

 

[Kayla1baker]

I was wondering about that thank you!!!

 

[Kiki]

Paper towels work really well for the first week too.
Easy to pick one up and replace it, even easier if you put multiple layers of them down.